Pluto in the Eighth House

The eighth house asks us to enlarge or sacrifice our ego boundaries in order
to enter into relationship or union with another or others. To do so,
some aspect of our personality or ego must die. Usually it is some
thing, not some one, that dies, and with the passing away of that
limiting aspect of our personality we experience a releasing freedom.

Herein is the second aspect of this house: resurrection and rebirth. The eighth
house rules personal evolution, growth, transformation and change,
death, rebirth, sex, possessions of a relationship, legacies,
inheritance, taxes, rituals, initiations and the occult, the astral body
and reincarnation, and the severing of ties to that to which we are
attached. A planet in the eighth indicates that a personal facet of your
psyche is under pressure to work more cooperatively or jointly with
others. Many planets here signify a person whose life can be
characterized by change. Such individuals may find continuous states of
affairs monotonous, and periodically bring about changes or crises to
feel truly alive.

The planet symbolizing power, personal mastery and evolution, sex and
death is strongly placed in the house of like attributes. The eighth house is Pluto’s natural and strongest position, denoting an
intense and powerful agent of growth and personal evolution at work in
your life. You periodically come face to face with limits in your
personal power, and seek to transcend your limitations by merging with
forces larger than yourself such as sex, death, meditation, magic,
rituals, money, occult bodies of knowledge, worship of a positive or
negative deity, status, or taboo subjects, all denizens of the eighth
house. There may also be compulsiveness in your relation to the symbol
you have chosen for transcendence. There is, however, an intense
conflict between the personal boundaries your ego establishes for
security after each such metamorphosis, and the force inexorably drawing
you, through progressive metamorphoses, to greater and greater merging
with the Ultimate source of power.

This continual confrontation with your limits stimulates intense internal and
transpersonal knowledge and awareness. Because you have experienced so
many metamorphoses and confrontations over so many lifetimes, you have
become intimately aware of the human psyche and of your own motivations,
and are a natural psychotherapist. Depending on your level of evolution,
you therefore have the power to understand and to penetrate to the core
of other individuals, as well as to see the blocks preventing their
growth. Sensing your ability to help, others will give you power over
them and thus experience you as magnetic. It is important that you do
not abuse this trust by manipulating and controlling other people. But
your motivation in relating to others will be determined by whether you
have reacted negatively or positively to your own metamorphic process.
If so disposed, you are capable of draining away other people’s money
or resources in a totally undetectable manner. In evolved individuals,
Pluto in the eighth indicates healing energy and occult or psychic
ability.

Astronomically speaking, the eighth house is that one-twelfth sector of the local sky midway between
the Midheaven and the western horizon (see above picture) occupied by
planets in the two to four hours before they set.

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